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Bel Ami; Or, The History of a Scoundrel by Ги де Мопассан is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Bel Ami; Or, The History of a Scoundrel about?
Bel-Ami is the story of a ruthlessly ambitious young man (Georges Duroy, christened “Bel-Ami” by his female admirers) making it to the top in fin-de-siécle Paris. It is a novel about money, sex, and power, set against the background of the politics of the French colonization of North Africa. It explores the dynamics of an urban society uncomfortably close to our own and is a devastating satire of the sleaziness of contemporary journalism. Bel-Ami enjoys the status of an authentic record of the apotheosis of bourgeois capitalism under the Third Republic. But the creative tension between its analysis of modern behavior and its identifiably late nineteenth-century fabric is one of the reasons why Bel-Ami remains one of the finest French novels of its time, as well as being recognized as Maupassant’s greatest achievement as a novelist.
Who reads Bel Ami; Or, The History of a Scoundrel?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Ги де Мопассан
- Publisher
- epubBooks Classics
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction
- Rating
- 3.9 / 5 (443 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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